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@ teh movies with Blogbot

Friday, March 12th, 2004

Post title shamelessly stolen from the blog formerly known as Nice Pants, Jerk.

[warning: spoilers ahead]

28 Days Later is on its way back to Netflix HQ as I type. I’m a bit of a sucker for these types of near-apocolyptic movies. I don’t really know what to say about this one (which means writing a blog entry about it is required) but I’d be interested to hear others’ impressions. I guess I would say that were it not for a few pretty significant plot questions, this would’ve been a really good horror/science fiction type movie. A few things I noticed:

  • Why didn’t the soldiers in the Manchester compound resort to buggery? It worked for pirates. Why such a discriminating taste for survivor females?
  • The idea of humans as virii is interesting enough, but if the infected retain almost all of their human characteristics (such as running maniacally, yelling, and biting), then why didn’t they work to sustain themselves by, you know, eating? It seemed a convenient plot twist that the infected simply starved to death. 28 days later.
  • Why were the infected basically vampires? If the virus is rage, then does it stand to reason that people are only enraged in the dark? I don’t get it.
  • I liked how the film was shot, especially the beginning scenes of an empty London. I’m surprised the jerky, grainy, high-contrast stylings didn’t annoy me, actually, now that I think about it.
  • How did these people NOT get infected with all the blood that was flying around?! (If I were truly tasteless, this would be the spot where I force a joke about "catching AIDS" from a drinking fountain. But I’m not.)
  • This was the first movie I’d seen in a long time where I immediately checked out the DVD special features when I was done watching the movie. So that’s gotta mean something. It’s good the alternate theatrical ending remained alternate, though I’m not sure I was too satisfied with the standard one, either.

I dunno, I guess there was just too much about the film that required me to suspend my disbelief. Unlike other movies of this ilk. Like Signs. *cough*

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4 Responses to “@ teh movies with Blogbot”

  1. ScatASStic
    March 14th, 2004 at 7:58 pm

    DID YOU WATCH THE FREAKIN’ ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS???? GAWD!!!

  2. Anonymous
    March 14th, 2004 at 7:59 pm

    MALCOM IN THE MIDDLE SUX.

  3. superrcat
    March 14th, 2004 at 11:46 pm

    I thought it was an alright movie. It was kinda like “Re-Animator” meets “Memento” meets “Resident Evil” meets Coldplay.

  4. kg.
    March 15th, 2004 at 11:44 am

    i don’t think that the infected could eat because, you know, they were spewing blood and having constant seizures. i saw it in the theatre the first time, and it was kind of epic, you know, in a sort of independence day sort of way. but, then it wasn’t that great (due to plot inaccuracies, duh) the second time around. but the special features did it in. and i think that i really like the movie. especially when i think about in context with all the goddamn politics of today. an attractive british hipster WILL save the world!

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